Centre exempts more services in lockdown

JAMMU: The Centre has permitted a number of business sectors to function during the lockdown, including essential goods and services, agriculture, animal husbandry, AYUSH services and transportation.
The clarification issued by the Union Home Ministry also permitted activities related to hygiene products and all such items that are ordinarily available at grocery or provision stores
All activities related to the above products and units connected with their supply chains, including e-commerce/home delivery companies, manufacturing units, godowns etc., have been permitted as well.
Shops selling agriculture/horticulture items, machinery, spare parts, fertilisers and other raw materials were allowed to function.
The MHA permitted inter and intra-state movement of all trucks and other goods carrier vehicles with one driver and an additional person during the lockdown. Harvesting and sowing-related machines like combined harvester and offices of transport companies with minimal office staff were allowed too.
For all such permitted activities, precautions against COVID-19 virus as well as hygiene and social distancing measures were made mandatory.
So far, Rajasthan government has permitted these sectors to remain functional even as other states and UTs including Jammu and Kashmir are yet to issue the necessary orders in this regard.
India has been on a 21-day lockdown from March 25 to check the spread of coronavirus pandemic that has claimed over 65,000 lives globally since the epidemic first emerged in China in December.

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